{"id":40231,"date":"2019-07-24T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40231"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:22:58","slug":"suicide-bomber-detonates-explosives-in-mogadishu-mayors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40231","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber detonates explosives in Mogadishu mayor&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"73.2245508982\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/somalia.html\">Somalia<\/a> say a suicide bomber has <span>detonated their explosives inside\u00a0<\/span>the office of Mogadishu&#8217;s mayor during a security meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman was injured in Wednesday&#8217;s blast, according to a relative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The blast injured many local officials including my cousin,&#8221; Mohamed Abdullahi, told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Mogadishu mayor is also injured &#8230; A suicide bomber walked into the meeting hall and blew up himself.&#8221; Mohamed added.<\/p>\n<p>Police Colonel Mohamed Abdi confirmed the attack to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how the bomber managed to enter the mayor&#8217;s office or what officials were attending the security meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Somalia say a suicide bomber has detonated their explosives inside\u00a0the office of Mogadishu&#8217;s mayor during a security meeting. Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman was injured in Wednesday&#8217;s blast, according to a relative. &#8220;The blast injured many local officials including my cousin,&#8221; Mohamed Abdullahi, told Reuters news agency. &#8220;The Mogadishu mayor is also injured &#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}